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author | Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> | 2020-02-09 14:33:14 +0000 |
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committer | Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> | 2020-02-09 14:33:14 +0000 |
commit | 530067463bffc982f02dcc4f2805d389704575b4 (patch) | |
tree | 27479c8740fa9cf51ba648f9f8435ba16586dc98 /doc | |
parent | 56b8768b32e9679d3f4f6e2070e9af8f9fc14ff1 (diff) | |
download | emacs-530067463bffc982f02dcc4f2805d389704575b4.tar.gz |
Correct "different than" to "different from" where appropriate
(doc/emacs/screen.texi)
(doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi)
(doc/misc/calc.texi)
(doc/misc/gnus.texi)
(doc/misc/sc.texi)
(lisp/align.el)
(lisp/allout-widgets.el)
(lisp/allout.el)
(lisp/emacs-lisp/gv.el)
(lisp/font-lock.el)
(lisp/gnus/mm-util.el)
(lisp/mail/feedmail.el)
(lisp/mail/sendmail.el)
(lisp/mail/supercite.el)
(lisp/org/org-attach.el)
(lisp/progmodes/cc-langs.el)
(lisp/progmodes/idlw-shell.el)
(lisp/ps-print.el)
(lisp/simple.el)
(src/cmds.c)
(src/editfns.c)
(src/frame.h)
(src/regex-emacs.c)
(src/xfaces.c): Replace "different than" by "different from".
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/emacs/screen.texi | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/misc/calc.texi | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/misc/gnus.texi | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/misc/sc.texi | 4 |
5 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/doc/emacs/screen.texi b/doc/emacs/screen.texi index 773bb939441..5c5a5da5511 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/screen.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/screen.texi @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ what is going on in the current buffer. When there is only one window, the mode line appears right above the echo area; it is the next-to-last line in the frame. On a graphical display, the mode line is drawn with a 3D box appearance. Emacs also usually draws the mode -line of the selected window with a different color than that of +line of the selected window with a different color from that of unselected windows, in order to make it stand out. The text displayed in the mode line has the following format: diff --git a/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi b/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi index 87152f49d6f..9e23f055f53 100644 --- a/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi +++ b/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi @@ -12919,7 +12919,7 @@ familiar part of this function. @unnumberedsubsec The @code{let*} expression The next line of the @code{forward-paragraph} function begins a -@code{let*} expression. This is a different than @code{let}. The +@code{let*} expression. This is different from @code{let}. The symbol is @code{let*} not @code{let}. @findex let* diff --git a/doc/misc/calc.texi b/doc/misc/calc.texi index a89a92d694e..f9196f808e7 100644 --- a/doc/misc/calc.texi +++ b/doc/misc/calc.texi @@ -27155,7 +27155,7 @@ anywhere in the formula. It is possible for a rule set to get into an infinite loop. The most obvious case, replacing a formula with itself, is not a problem because a rule is not considered to ``succeed'' unless the righthand -side actually comes out to something different than the original +side actually comes out to something different from the original formula or sub-formula that was matched. But if you accidentally had both @samp{ln(a b) := ln(a) + ln(b)} and the reverse @samp{ln(a) + ln(b) := ln(a b)} in your rule set, Calc would @@ -28075,7 +28075,7 @@ for angstroms. The unit @code{pt} stands for pints; the name @code{point} stands for a typographical point, defined by @samp{72 point = 1 in}. This is -slightly different than the point defined by the American Typefounder's +slightly different from the point defined by the American Typefounder's Association in 1886, but the point used by Calc has become standard largely due to its use by the PostScript page description language. There is also @code{texpt}, which stands for a printer's point as diff --git a/doc/misc/gnus.texi b/doc/misc/gnus.texi index 83641feeb56..fbdf09420a9 100644 --- a/doc/misc/gnus.texi +++ b/doc/misc/gnus.texi @@ -27664,7 +27664,7 @@ added. A plethora of new commands and modes have been added. @xref{Gnus Unplugged}, for the full story. @item -The @code{nndraft} back end has returned, but works differently than +The @code{nndraft} back end has returned, but works differently from before. All Message buffers are now also articles in the @code{nndraft} group, which is created automatically. diff --git a/doc/misc/sc.texi b/doc/misc/sc.texi index abde85c790b..ccf5b9efb05 100644 --- a/doc/misc/sc.texi +++ b/doc/misc/sc.texi @@ -1033,7 +1033,7 @@ that will be used to composed a non-nested citation string. Supercite scans the various mail headers present in the original article and uses a number of heuristics to extract strings which it puts into the @dfn{attribution association list} or @dfn{attribution alist}. This is -analogous, but different than, the info alist previously mentioned. Each +analogous, but different from, the info alist previously mentioned. Each element in the attribution alist is a key-value pair containing such information as the author's first name, middle names, and last name, the author's initials, and the author's email terminus. @@ -1330,7 +1330,7 @@ co-worker that uses an uncommon citation style (say one that employs a possible for Supercite to recognize this and @emph{coerce} the citation to your preferred style, for consistency. In theory, it is possible for Supercite to recognize such things as uuencoded messages or C code and -cite or fill those differently than normal text. None of this is +cite or fill those differently from normal text. None of this is currently part of Supercite, but contributions are welcome! @node Using Regi |